Square Enix has released in the Famitsu magazine some very nice screenshots and arts of its upcoming big RPG named The Last Remnant for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Scheduled (on Xbox 360) for November 20 worldwide, the game will be playable in a couple of weeks during Tokyo Game Show 2008.
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Square Enix said Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope and the Last Remnant would be at Tokyo Game Show, but in what form? The ambiguous presence might be accredited to where both games are going to be found. Inside the press release announcing Infinite Undiscovery's release in Japan, Microsoft said playable builds of Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope and the Last Remnant will be inside Microsoft's booth.
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PS3Fanboy: "Some of you may have read (and even tipped us off) about reports stating that The Last Remnant for PS3 would be released alongside the 360 version this November. However, and unfortunately, this statement is false. Famitsu, the origin of the mistaken release date has issued a correction (via IGN)."
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TalkPlayStation.com writes:"The Last Remnant official website opens on the 18th of August 2008. Currently a timed Xbox 360 exclusive, it will eventually come to the Playstation 3. Check back to the website in 7 days."
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The Last Remnant's official website has been updated with an official blog where you can find four wallpapers.
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A new character was revealed in The Last Remnant: Jager.
You can also get a first look to Athlum and Celapaleis, two game's cites.
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Square Enix has gone PC. On the first day of the show, the Japanese game publisher announced that Final Fantasy XIII is coming to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (in Europe and North America only) and PC. During a press conference following the Microsoft event, Final Fantasy XIII Producer Yoshinori Kitase discussed the new development strategy that Square Enix has taken with its upcoming games.

Aside from the new The Last Remnant game, which is being created for Xbox 360 and PS3 using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 externally, all new internally-developed games from Square Enix, including Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII Versus, and an untitled new massively multiplayer online game, utilize the new PC-based Crystal Tools development environment. These tools allow development teams to create cross-platform games.

"The content will be the same on all platforms," said Kitase. "However, we have yet to determine how many discs will be required for the 360 version. We'll have to consider the differences between formats. Currently the game is being built on PC, where it's actually functional. We're still focusing on making it work on PS3, so it's difficult to know how long the process of taking it to 360 will take."

Thanks to the new PC development platform, Kitase added, "Now that we're developing on a PC base, the pace is going a bit faster," Kitase said. "We haven't introduced new footage of the game, but we should be able to show something new in the near future."

Square Enix showed the beautiful pre-rendered trailer for Final Fantasy XIII at the end of the Microsoft press conference. The publisher has a big event scheduled for Tokyo next month where the first new information will be revealed on all Final Fantasy titles. Previously, the publisher released its online game, Final Fantasy XII, on Xbox 360 and PC.
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PS3 Fanboy: "The official site of the The Last Remnant is now online. There's a trailer, a prologue, information on the battle system, 4 characters with voices and 12 screenshots. You can even choose between three different songs as your background music. The game prologue mentions Remnants as ancient artifacts of awesome power but unknown origins, and that mankind's usage of them has caused "a rift in the world's balance." Isn't there always a rift in the world's balance in every Square game?"
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Since Microsoft's recent RPG event, news has been coming in in bits and pieces. Now, with much effort is available a one stop shop for those big releases. Complete with trailers, release dates, and quick game summaries; enough is there to whet any appetite.
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As promised Microsoft's 'RPG Premiere' has just come to a close in Japan and there are enough stats here to give even the most casual RPG fan the horn. One thing's for sure, MS isn't going down in Japan without a fight.

Let's get right to it. First up is Namco Bandai's colourful Tales of Vesperia, which has been confirmed for release this August in Japan and the US, with us dirty Europeans having to wait a far longer into ...

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